Ludovic Courtès
As someone who’s contributed to GNU, promoted it, and also spoke up in the past, I feel like I should publicize this report by @report_press:
https://stallman-report.org
Many of these things were described in 2019 (some of which I was unaware of at the time) but this report is thoroughly documented and has it all in one place.
It’s also a reminder that leadership must be held accountable, for the common good.
🧵
Ludovic Courtès
To me though, that ship has sailed: I have long stopped regarding RMS and the FSF as leaders, and so did many in the free software movement it seems.
I wrote about my perspective on GNU last year:
https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/111137935678652241
Ludovic Courtès
Good news is other projects, orgs, and people are leading the movement these days: Framasoft, sr.ht and Forgejo/Codeberg, the folks behind the Fediverse, Tor, Spritely, FSFE, LQDN, and many more.
Most in this list consider autonomy beyond mere “software user freedom”, and I think that’s what we need.
That and making sure our passion/hobby/work doesn’t contribute to making the planet unlivable.
Ludovic Courtès
In 2019–2021, some of us attempted to create a “new GNU” (not mentioned in the report) to take the user empowerment torch *and* get rid of the founder’s syndrome and everything that the report highlights:
https://gnu.tools/
Support wasn’t there at the time, which is one of the factors that brought the effort to a halt.
Ludovic Courtès
The recommendations of @report_press for the GNU Project seem uninformed to me.
1. GNU has always been an informal group: historical contributors stopped caring; newer contributors probably never did; it’s pretty much an empty shell.
2. The “big” GNU projects don’t recognize the authority of RMS in their governance.
3. Stallman’s “Kind Communication Guidelines” were denounced early on; Guix, GCC, glibc, etc. adopted a code of conduct, some way before that.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
Ludovic Courtès
@lanodan I think recognition and support of the GNU Assembly from outside free software folks would have been very helpful, but it was lacking.
Not the only demotivating factor, but an important one.
PuercoPop
@civodul Has #guix considered moving of Savannah to sourcehut? One area that #guix is in a good position to improve self-hosting/autonomy/descentralization is by reducing the LoE to self host your forge.
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